ANTHRO 128B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Y Chromosome, Race Condition, Pass Laws
17 Jul 2018
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Anthro 128b race, gender, science -- lecture 11 . +increase commercial area that people use to identify kinship. ~inherited by all children exclusively from their mothers. Complex genetics of race and gender have social implications. ~dna tell you about what social relationships are like. ~ex: kinship and identity (how nonscientist make use of research) +use dna to identify biological relatives has been common for some time. ~growing commercial area build on interest in genealogy and helps people trace ancestry using dna. (cid:272)o(cid:374)su(cid:373)er dna sear(cid:272)hed agai(cid:374)st (cid:272)o(cid:373)pa(cid:374)y"s refere(cid:374)(cid:272)e database of samples distant. +certain small population supposed to stand for entire continents. ~if sample & reference match at a set # of genetic markers individual said to share maternal/paternal ancestor. ~frequncy data of certain alleles (ancestry informative markers) are obtained for several populations. +frequency allele how much more common in one area vs. another. ~individual genotype are recorded and likelihiid of admicture proportion is calculated.
